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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Cultural Histories of Cinema Ser |
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Cultural Histories of Cinema Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Inflight entertainment and cosmopolitanism -- Inflight entertainment as transmedia -- Organisation and method -- Inflight entertainment as globalisation -- Geographies -- 1. Global Airspace, Global Cinemaspace -- New categories of space and sovereignty -- The international framework for inflight film -- Globalisation as flow -- Conclusion: air world -- 2. Aerial Perceptions: The Visuality of the Airplane -- From tours to pre-tours -- Flag carriers and national cinemas -- The aerial view -- The global cinematic |
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Technologies -- 3. Airborne Cinema: The Emergence of Inflight Entertainment -- 'Movies! 8,000 feet over the Atlantic' -- 'Our customers like movies, we like movies and we intend to keep them' -- Competing screen sizes -- The sound of inflight entertainment -- Conclusion: 'A necessary evil' -- 4. Executive Flight: Attention, Gender and the Seatback Screen -- Global attention economy -- Productive empty time -- 'Let us entertain you' -- Censorship and the contested space of the cabin -- Conclusion -- 5. Networked Transport: Neoliberalism and Digital Entertainments |
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A brief history of inflight telephony -- Digital neoliberalism -- Flying the web -- Virtual weight -- Crises -- 6. Disastrous Speed: Thrill Rides, Screens and Fear of Flying -- The logic of speed -- Screen reassurance and safety announcements -- The latent danger of inflight entertainment -- Astrovision: American Airlines' thrill ride -- The terminal citizen -- 7. Live in Air: Aerial Circuits of Television -- Routine emergencies of television -- Conclusion: Cinema as Infrastructure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- eCopyright |
| Notes |
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Global Airspace, Global Cinemaspace.- 2. Aerial Perceptions: The Visuality of the Airplane.- 3. Airborne Cinema: The Emergence of Inflight Entertainment.- 4. Executive Flight: Attention, Gender, and the Seatback Screen.- 5. Networked Transport: Neoliberalism and Digital Entertainments.- 6. Disastrous Speed: Thrill Rides, Screens, and Fear of Flying.- 7. Live in Air: Aerial Circuits of Television.- Conclusion: Cinema as Infrastructure.- Bibliography.- Index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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In-flight entertainment systems.
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In-flight entertainment systems
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1838715010 |
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9781838715014 |
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